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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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